Fal
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I have gotten to the place where I do fully believe my symptoms are TMS. I am afraid of the pain/terrible discomfort above anything else. I know this is counterintuitive and have been trying to reassure myself with messages of safety to say that they are just sensations and are not dangerous or will turn into anything else, etc, but my mind is obsessive and anxious, so it’s hard to focus on much else when there’s pain.
Fal, that’s awesome, can you sum up what you did to help your recovery?
I also watch Dan Buglio and found him before finding the TMS forum. Then I overwhelmed/confused myself by the different methods. Dan’s approach is to not focus on the symptoms or causes, which feels simple and a relief for me. Much of what I read on this forum talks about needing to do emotional work first, which I know is the key for many people. I have done SO so much emotional work already, for years, and continuing throughout every day, all day pretty much lol, and it’s driving me crazy when my mind automatically tries to figure out what caused a random uptick in symptoms and connect it to an emotion/situation, when it never actually links to anything or resolves. It seems to put more importance on the emotions/thoughts, making them bigger than they are.
So I know the key for me is to step away from that a bit and not focus on the potential emotional causes as much outside of therapy, because I think the cause is mostly that I can’t help but focus on the symptoms because they are so uncomfortable (double-edge sword). I know tons of others have been able to overcome this, so that makes me feel even worse that I haven’t been able to yet. Any tips (other than trying to overcome that self-blame)?
To be honest I just didn’t react to the symptoms at all even if it hurt, I mean 6 months later since that last post my full body stiffness has more or less gone aside from my hands and toes which are getting looser by the day (just annoyingly slow) but it’s gone from everywhere else. I can walk fine now, sitting too long doesn’t affect me, getting up doesn’t affect me.
I’m confident I’m close to the end goal even if it takes another 6 months, I’m just happy knowing about TMS!